Arsenal Football Club (also known as The Gunners), are a professional football club based in Holloway, London. In late 1886, a gaggle of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team. They called themselves Dial Square as a reference to the sundial atop the entrance to the factory. On December 11, 1886, Dial Square romped to a 6-0 victory over Eastern Wanderers; the first game in their initial guise. Shortly afterwards the name ‘Royal Arsenal’ was adopted. Today, Arsenal are one of the most successful and popular clubs in the history of the English league, with a trophy haul than includes 13 League titles, 12 FA Cups, and 2 League Cups.

When Henry Norris decided that Arsenal needed a new manager in the summer of 1925, he could never have anticipated the impact of his next appointment. After flirting with relegation in the previous season, Chapman set about reinventing the Club with almost immediate effect, and in a broader sense helped move football from the amateur era into a professional one. In his first season at Highbury, the new manager steered the Gunners to an FA Cup Quarter Final and a second-place finish in the First Division; the highest league placing in their history. And unlike many of his contemporaries in Britain, Chapman was a fan of the continental game and counted among his friends Hugo Meisl and Jimmy Hogan, coaches of the Austrian Wunderteam of the 1930s.

In the mid '90s, they appointed another visionary in Arsène Wenger with former vice-chairman David Dein bringing him to the club in 1996 - Dein actually wanted to appoint him a year earlier before Bruce Rioch but the old school board did not want a foreign manager - and the next 20 years have been a remarkable and unforgettable period in the club’s history - with Arsenal building a reputation for playing an attractive, streamlined style of football that rivals some of the best teams in Europe while winning three league titles and seven FA Cups and boasting the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pirès, Cesc Fàbregas and Robin Van Persie in their ranks.

The club plays its home games at the Emirates Stadium, and has a bitter sporting rivalry with neighbors Tottenham Hotspur in a match termed the North London Derby, apart from a competitive rivalry against the other major clubs of the Premier League, especially Manchester United - in an affair that peaked in the late 1990s to early 2000s period.

Dropping points at Arsenal always feels like points dropped (as oppose to away to Liverpool or Chelsea) but I worry about the way they performed against Spurs and that happening to us especially given our recent trips there

I feel better about this one. They will provide room for us on the counter and their defensive line is never great. Unlike at Anfield, where fear and bragging rights are always involved to a certain degree, we will be more involved on Saturday for sure. Keep a tight unit at the back, focus on counters - and not only because it’s smart and safer, but it’s the way to beat Arsenal. Martial to be key....

Would take a draw, but not really.... I think we can sneak past them on a good day.

Just Hope Matic is fit for this, No place for Herrera, Mkhitaryan and Mata as the three became unbelievably poor and that's sad, but good for Lingard to step up, Lukaku need to be back on the scoring sheet.
Martial has to start.

Martial has to start this no matter what - he is our most talented attacker, most productive this season and most in form. Also as a striker as he then brings out more from Lukaku usuall. It's a no brainer IMO. Young as well on current amazing form. Lindelof could easily keep his place but Bailly if he's fit should start all the time.

After them, there's question marks on who should or will start for a few positions. Feck knows who to play for the 10. Nobody performs well at right wing, and our 10's are all off form while Lingard normally disappoints in games like this, and then rashford I don't think deserves to start this after his recent form (plus not being his position). Absolutely not Ibra either for that. Maybe Herrera/fellaini to make a midfield 3? Andre has been off form but he normally performs well in big games. Fellaini usually does alright in them too tbf. Id go with:

In the mid '90s, they appointed another visionary in Arsène Wenger with former vice-chairman David Dein bringing him to the club in 1996 - Dein actually wanted to appoint him a year earlier before Bruce Rioch but the old school board did not want a foreign manager - and the next 20 years have been a remarkable and unforgettable period in the club’s history - with Arsenal building a reputation for playing an attractive, streamlined style of football that rivals some of the best teams in Europe while winning three league titles and four FACups and boasting the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieira, Robert Pirès, Cesc Fàbregas and Robin Van Persie in their ranks.
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